8 papers
Misaligned or chaotic? A strong break of axial symmetry in the local LRD J1025 revealed with VLT/FORS2 spectropolarimetry
Francesco D'Eugenio, Gabriele Pezzulli, Roberto Maiolino +18
Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact active galactic nuclei (AGN) with unusual spectral energy distributions and broad Balmer emission, candidate signposts of rapid black-hole growth…
Little Red and Blue Dots: AGN-excited narrow lines, Lyman- emission, and resemblance to standard quasars
Sophia Geris, Roberto Maiolino, Xihan Ji +35
We present an analysis of a sample of 36 Little Red and Blue Dots (LRDs and LBDs) at , identified by JWST in the GOODS fields. While both categories are selected to ha…
You can't see me: Super-Eddington growth hindering X-ray detection in high-z broad-line active galactic nuclei
Alessandro Trinca, Alessandro Lupi, Francesco Haardt +1
We revisit black hole mass estimates for high-redshift broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) discovered with JWST by jointly analysing their broad emission lines and their syste…
Little red dots as obscured little blue dots: relative abundances, luminosities, and black-hole masses
Piero Madau, Roberto Maiolino
We test whether ``little red dots'' (LRDs) are the dust-reddened, high-inclination counterparts of bluer compact broad-line active galactic nuclei, here referred to as ``little blu…
The search for Population III: Confirmation of a HeII emitter with no metal lines at z=10.6
Roberto Maiolino, Hannah Ãbler, Michele Perna +49
We report the confirmation of a HeII1640 emitter located at 3 pkpc from the galaxy GN-z11, at z=10.6. The detection, based on JWST NIRSpec-IFU high-resolution spectroscopy, con…
Wings of little dots: Exponential broad lines from a stratified BLR
Piero Madau, Roberto Maiolino, Jan Scholtz +1
We investigate the origin of the broad exponential wings seen in the Halpha profiles of many JWST-discovered little red dots (LRDs) and little blue dots (LBDs). Recent studies show…